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All The Winners At The 2018 Jumia Nigeria Travel Awards

Jumia Travel, Africa’s leading
online travel agency recently celebrated her 2nd edition of the Nigeria Travel
Awards, which was marked with pomp and color. The awards aimed at
celebrating hoteliers, airlines and travel websites for their contributions to
the success of the travel, hospitality and tourism industries in 2017, was well
attended.

Omolara Adagunodo, MD, Jumia
Travel Nigeria during her welcome remark said: “the objective of the awards
event is to recognise the good work that different players within the travel
& tourism industry are putting in to ensure customers are satisfied. As you
know, our mission is to democratize travel in Africa because we believe travel
makes better people and stronger business. To achieve this, we want to make
travelling safer, easier, and more enjoyable for everyone at every budget.”

Similarly, the Director-General
of the Nigeria Tourism Development Commission (NTDC) has called on Nigerians to
promote domestic tourism by looking inwards and growing the nation’s tourism
policy to enable the sector realize its full potentials.

Coker made this call during his
keynote address, stressing the need to market, promote and bring the world to
Nigeria using the numerous tourist attractions in the country. “To make tourism
attractive”, he said, “certain steps must be taken. He listed these steps as:
reviewing laws that don’t go along with recent trends in the industry; training
personnel to understand how the industry works; putting infrastructure of
tourism in place by investing in tourism assets; producing tourism events to
international standard and doing away with bureaucratic bottlenecks that hinder
access to finance meant for promoting tourism in the country.”

The 2017 African Travel Awards
winners were announced as follows, under seven categories:

Jumia Travel Booking Award 2017 -
Citiheight Hotel

Travelers’ Choice Award 2017 -
Epe Resorts

Best Leisure Hotel in Lagos 2017
- Golden Tulip, Festac

Best Business Hotel in Lagos 2017
- Eko Hotel & Suites

Favourite Local Airline 2017 - Air
Peace

Favourite International Airline
2017 - Emirates

Best Travel Blog/Website in Lagos
2017 - Irin Ajo

The inaugural awards held in 2016
ascertained Jumia Travel’s commitment to keep bettering the travel experience
in Africa, positioning the awards ceremony as a key event in the travel and
tourism sector in each country. This year, they were simultaneously held in 8
other African cities including Nairobi, Algiers, Dakar, Abidjan, Accra, Douala,
Dar Es Salaam, and Kampala.